Facebook Boosts Competition With LinkedIn With Paid Messages

Facebook testing a feature in which users can pay $1 to ensure that a message goes to another user’s inbox and generates a notification, as reported in more detail by Inside Facebook.

Facebook testing a feature in which users can pay $1 to ensure that a message goes to another user’s inbox and generates a notification, as reported in more detail by Inside Facebook.

Messages from people a user doesn’t know often go to a mysterious “other” box and don’t trigger a notification.

The move brings it into direct competition with LinkedIn, which only allows premium users to message those with whom they aren’t connected on the site.

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